Getting Hit Over the Head by the Deck
Sometimes it just happens, you are an average stack in a tournament and just not getting any real hands, when you look down and see pocket aces. And if that weren’t enough, a player raises in front of you and gets two callers. You reraise big and get it heads up and the poor soul with the KK, gives you his entire stack. Two hands later, you are still stacking all those chips and you get AK and hit a five player flop with QJ10 and the guy with the JJ hands you his stack. The run continues and you go from average stack to the chip leader in about an hour. The big pairs just keep coming and when they don’t you hit the flop so hard with your rags in the big blind that you trap another player.
You are Getting Hit Over the Head by the Deck. Also called “Getting Hit by the Deck”. In other poker parlance, we might say you are “On a Rush” but whatever you want to call a really big run of cards, it will happen and you should play it strong. Now true mathematical players will tell you that a good run of cards can end on one hand and become a horrible bad streak on the next. What they miss is the human factor. When you are on a run of cards, when the deck is hitting you over the head, everyone at your table knows it and they will be wary of you. No matter how analytical a player may be, when he sees someone on a hot streak, there is a very strong tendency to stay out of the way of the hot player.
Use this to your advantage. When you have a big card rush, play more hands, even though other players will not believe you have a hand every time; they also know that you are getting hit over the head by the deck and they will avoid you and you will accumulate more chips than the rush really should give you. Remember card players can be superstitious and they also can get hit over the head.
-this is Beginner’s Poker Blog Post #191
